The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-28

success7 Now trust some Democrats hear me
to-day I make my appeal to them Will you not
support the proposition that these Denevolehs
institutions. fruits of the message and dying OF
the Son of God, shall be taken out OF the siougn
of politics and set upon the sunlit hills OF dutys
Your party leaders, your majority last winter In
the Senate, set themselves across the pathway
of reform and by defeating an election tor new
trustees in the place of those who had been
demonstrated to be unfit have perpetuated TO
this day low and abomlnaole management OF
our benevolent institutions. Have politics be-
come SO bestial that out of the misery and care
of the insane low men shall be al
lowed to coin Party Party dsa.b a. not
We are entitled to know that the men
and the women who have the care of these
fortunate ones have been selected not on ac-
count of their politics but account of their
experience and of their kind and humane dis
positions How utterly at the mercy of lust and
cruelty the insane are. When they come into a
court of justice to tell of brutality and outrage
the answer is, they insane. Defenseless,
except we resolve. fellow-citizens, that the
next Legislature that meets in Indiana shall be
pledged to tho duty of putting every one of our
benevolent institutions upon an intelligent nom
partisan civil service basis. Loud and pro-
longed applause.I So that it shall never again
be asked when man applies for
service in one OF these institutions, What are
your politics: so that the most careful scrutiny
into their antecedent history and their fitness for
the delicate duties they to discharge shall de-
termine the question of their appointment Gov
ernor Gray made brief appearance on the stage
a reformer in connection with these institu-
tions. Claiming that the period OF DR.. Har-
rison, of Boone county, and of Mr.. Gapen, of
Marion county, had expired, he assumed to ap-
point trustees in their places; but they have not
been indicted into Office, and 1 cannot see that
Governor Gray is fretting himself over the fail
ure. His action confessed what we had said in
the last campaign to the unfitness of this
management, and the fact that he has not fol-
lowed up his initial step shows that the spirit of
a true reformer is not in him. Here. then, is
one issue til at has to be fought out at the next
election. Bear ir III mind, every honest man In
the State of Indiana, that the care and interest
of these unfortunate classes are in your keeping;
write upon the banner that you shall carry In
front of these marching Lincoln leagues In the
coming campaign: Thorough reformation of
our benevolent institutions" lGreat cheering.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
There is another question that want to talk
about for a little while. and that is what will
still call the temperance question, though
notice that distinguished bishop of the Meth
odist Church South said the other day that
down his wav thew have got past temperance.
and refused to appoint any conference commit
tee temperance, because they had got by that.
When you get past temperance beware of in
temperance yourself. l believe there is an
authority which all Methodist brethren
recognize. well as we Presbyterians, to the
effect that we should be temperate in ell
things" The apostle had not got past temper
ance. Now what is this temperance. or liquor
that takes on a broad aspect. 1t is the question
of the absolute, universal obedience to law
Law by everybody. IGreat applause That is
the first and broadest statement of it, 1 say
absolute universal obedience to law as law,
without any reference to what think. you
think about the law. And yet, when that very
issue is made. as it was made in our last
zens standing for law and order,
irrespective of party, combining to de-
feat the insolent attempt of the Liquor League
to dominate city politics, ana to re-elect
man Mayor who had had the courage to put
work house sentences upon these liquor-sel-
lers when they persistently violated the law,
found some gentlemen of tho sort who bad got
past temperance voting independent ticket
and so helping indirectly to elect a who
would have given a loose rein to lawlsssness.
coed. don't impute this the purpose at all of
any of them; but nevertheless the effect of with
drawing from this column of the law and order
people some votes that might have been neces-
sary to prevent the triumph of lawlessness, was
to put the cause of public order in peril. My
countrymen, believe that the question OF en-
forcing the laws is assuming an Importance now
that it has never had before in our country.
We have been careless. tboughtlsss. as we saw
violations of law going on from day to dav, but
the Nation has been startled into a realization of
the fact that its only safety, the only anchor
it has out the side of social order and domes
tic, peace is the enforcement of the law. What
was it that eliminated at Chicago less thaa two
years ago, on that day when the guardians CT
the law butchered? Where did this red
flower find it's seed9 1t was. as believe, in that
defiant, persistent violation of law upon which
we have long looked indiffereptly. Ths.Na-
ton is waking up. My first proposition on the
temperance question is that 80 long as the law
shall still stand together and declare that the
law shall be enforced. [Great applause Now,
! know there are some peopie-who seem to me
to be greatly misguided-who say don't
care about the law being enforced; we would
rather have free whisky than taxed whisky;
would rather the sale should be open ard uure-
strained; would rather that the violations of or
der might be increased and multiplied. because
thereby we hope to awaken the people to fuller
realization of the evil of this thing and thus Sc
cure State prohibition. I hope friend here
takes that ground. If you do, you find yourself
in bad company and evil consequences following
hard after you. Stand rather all good men
must stand for the rigid enforcement. without
fear or favor, of every statute upon the statute
books. That is good start. And when this
principle is we'll established and you stand with
us now for it, we will stand with you when you
get law that suts you better. and you will
have a sentiment that will back it up but if You
don't stand with now, but encourage in any
way directly or indirectly, the spirit of lawless
ness, what will you appeal when you get the
law you wantl
want to say this further: There may have
been a time in the past when the Republican
but beg to say to all who hear me to-
day that when the platform of the last State
was read and received with cheers by
the greet masses who heard 1t, any daliance be-
tween the Republican party aud the Liquor
League was severed once and forever. Great
applause When the resolution fell from the
of the Journal, rs chairman of the committee on
resolutions, a trumpet was sounded that will
never call retreat Applause Why1 Simply
for the reason l have already given; the Liquor
League is organization framed to defy the
law. and. therefore. we are against it and it is
against US. [Applause.] And yet, notwith-
standing this, and notwithsta landing the fact
that whenever you open the robe in which the
Democratic party masquerades, you some
Liquor League Doodle sticking out. there
are those who, like my friend the
Methodist bishop South, have got "past
and thIrd-party
who make the welkin ring with the cry.
''Smash the Republican party Well that is
not cry likely to draw Republicans into your
party. Before me to-day is great
body of Republicans. young and old, full
of pride in the old party; who believe
that 1t has. under God, wrought out the best
things that were ever achieved by any political
organization; who believe that 1t has in it yet
high capacities. and who are not annually dis
posed when ybody Gays, ''Smash the Repub
lican party" Applausel If you want to per-
suade us, you will have to change that cry. And